I got an idea for a sweater some time ago and I’ve been knitting it since then, all my spare moments, with enthusiasm and happy grin on my face. The grin doesn’t mean, that knitting has been easy, but I’ve been still having fun. Usually, I make a tiny swatch (because I’m lazy), but this time I surprised myself with a proper swatch, knitted in the round as the sweater was going to be knitted. The finished swatch looked exactly like a sleeve and I loved it. So I made the sleeves to look pretty much the same as the swatch. Next, I knitted the body, but it came out awful and I ripped it out as soon as I had tried it on. And felt a little depressed of course, because it was almost finished. The next attempt was to make the body from top down and it worked! Now I’m knitting the long stockinette part and watching movies to make this less boring. The sleeves are going to be attached later.

I’ve been also playing with food coloring in attempt to make semi-solid sock yarn. Green (with a hint of yellow) came out just perfect. Blue is not exactly semi-solid, because it has too much white spots in it. Red (with a hint of yellow) on the other hand, came out solid, not semi-solid. I still love the colors and they are going to be socks some day. Originally they all were off-white Sandnesgarn Sisu.

I have some beautiful merino yarn in a colour I can`t stand – maybe food colouring is the solution. How is this done? Simply by soaking the yarn in food colouring? Do you mix the colour with water? Heat it?I`m very thankful for help.